"Do you think anyone bends their backs for money?"

Zhou Shuyi could no longer control his feelings, Huo Ran turned around and said angrily.

"Shut up, isn't it shameful enough?"

However, at this moment, a flat and dangerous voice sounded not far away: "Sometimes, it is okay to bend your waist for money. ”

Zhou Xiyi's face turned extremely pale again, he was shocked and couldn't understand, but he almost subconsciously bowed to the place where he came out, and said in a trembling voice: "Father." ”

A middle-aged man with a face as pale as jade, a cyan robe, and a clean bun slowly walked out from the back of a carriage.

The Zhou family is the old gate valve of the Great Qin, although it began to slump after the former merchants changed the law, since the accession of Emperor Yuanwu to the throne, the Zhou family, like almost all the old gate valves, has no foothold. However, the old magnates naturally had an extraordinary heritage.

Zhou Yunhai, the father of Zhou Freehand who walked out at this time, although he did not serve in the court, walked slowly, and had his own dragon and tiger steps, and now Changling's new magnates did not have a graceful bearing.

Compared with his temperament, Xie Changsheng feels like a rustic nouveau riche.

It's just that Xie Changsheng seems to want to take the temperament of this nouveau riche to the extreme.

Hearing this person's voice, looking at Zhou Xianyi's awe-inspiring and ashamed appearance, Xie Changsheng's eyes suddenly lit up, he looked at Zhou Yunhai who came over, and asked, "Talk about something?"

Zhou Yunhai first bowed to Xue Wangxu, then smiled slightly, and said: "Since the dogs have already lost the gamble, let outsiders enter the hospital to comprehend the freehand fragment, but I don't care about a few more outsiders, if you young talents can really understand some exquisite sword styles from my Zhou family's freehand fragments, and make contributions in the future, it can also be passed on as a beautiful talk." ”

Zhou Yunhai's speaking temperament at this time was still extremely graceful and gentle, but Xie Changsheng's eyes were even brighter, and he simply said, "How much gold?"

Zhou Yunhai also seemed to think Xie Changsheng was interesting, and smiled: "One person is ten thousand gold?"

Xie Changsheng said directly: "Deal." ”

Zhang Yi was also from a poor family, and when he heard that he was going to enter the garden to observe the scriptures, he would ask for ten thousand gold, even if Xie Changsheng didn't care, he obviously wanted to help them out, but he still felt a little uneasy, and couldn't help but say something.

However, at this moment, Xue Wangxu glanced at him.

He suddenly reacted and remained silent.

Xue Wangxu said lightly: "Don't count me, it is said that the scenery of the ink garden is good, I will take a look at the scenery later." ”

Zhou Yunhai said respectfully: "The Sect Master of the Xue Cave Lord, naturally there is no need to look at the fragments of my Zhou family. ”

Xue Wangxu shook his head and said, "You don't have to be so humble, even those Changling geniuses who were much stronger than me in the past also attached great importance to the freehand fragments, I don't look at it, I just don't want to see the sword intent that makes my heart itch anymore, but I don't have enough time to practice." ”

Zhou Yunhai was slightly stunned, sighed lightly, and didn't say anything more.

When Zhang Yi heard this, she suddenly felt more urgent, and she was even more ashamed of her mother-in-law.

Zhou Shuyi followed Zhou Yunhai and got into the carriage of the Zhou family and led the way in front.

During this time, Zhou Xiyi always lowered his head and did not make a sound, when the carriage began to run, he finally raised his head, but knowing his son Mo Ruo's father, just looking at a little light in his eyes, Zhou Yunhai already knew what he was thinking.

"Don't ask me when I'm here. ”

Zhou Yunhai looked at him and said quietly: "Whether it is the Sword Market Festival of the Lingxu Sword Sect or the Sword Meeting of the Minshan Sword Sect, it seems to be a competition of young talents in Great Qin, but behind the scenes, it is not a competition of all the gate valves and powerful people in Great Qin? Today's duel between Chen Liufeng and Fan Wujian is equivalent to the first battle of the Minshan Sword Society, how can I not come? When you and Lu Duofeng and Xin gradually left to compete with them for the position, I had already arrived, but I didn't expect that Ding Ning would choose you among the three. Therefore, if you lose today, I am naturally responsible. ”

There was no reproach in his tone, but Zhou Shuyi was even more ashamed and self-reproachful.

He gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't expect him to be so strong. ”

"Whether you think he's so strong or not, if you are stronger, he'll be defeated. Zhou Yunhai looked at him lightly and said, "So I only hope that you will turn this shame of defeat into a motivation for cultivation." Even if you suffer this defeat today, if he defeats him at the Minshan Sword Meeting in the future, who will care about this defeat today?"

After a slight pause, Zhou Yunhai looked at Zhou Xianyi and said, "After you go back, you can retreat." You have to think about it, even if it is humiliated, it is only half a year before the Minshan Sword Society. Why don't you endure it for half a year? I hope you learn more from that young man in the wine shop and not be shocked."

Zhou Shuyi's mood slowly calmed down, he looked at his father with some gratitude, but he was still a little puzzled, and said: "Father, does the family really care about those money?

Zhou Yunhai said coldly: "You are not sober enough yet? How much time did it take for our Zhou family to comprehend the freehand fragment for generations? What can these young people see? And others don't know, but don't you know how much money it costs for the ancestors to cultivate?"

Hearing the word "ancestor", Zhou Xianyi suddenly felt a chill all over his body and completely woke up.

......

Originally, when he came, it was a carriage from Nangong Caishu, Xu Heshan, and Xie Changsheng, but at this time, when he went to the old garden where the Zhou family gate valve had declined, Xie Changsheng insisted on riding with Ding Ning and Shen Yi.

"Oops!"

Just left the river bank and entered the main road, but Xie Changsheng patted his head and screamed in annoyance.

"What's wrong?" Shen Yi was taken aback.

Xie Changsheng sighed and said, "I just forgot about the change of heart of the Jiyi Heart Sect, otherwise I can invite him to go with me." ”

Ding Ning glanced at him and said, "You really have so much money that you have nowhere to spend it, and you are still annoyed if you don't need to go out?"

"Money is born to be spent. Xie Changsheng said as a matter of course: "My father said that it doesn't matter if you spend money like flowing water, the most important thing is that as long as there is new money coming in like flowing water." Flowing water goes out, flowing water comes in, so that we can continue to harvest goodwill or friendship. Otherwise, the dead things will pile up there, and they will eventually be taken away by someone in a pot. ”

Ding Ning frowned slightly, was silent for a few breaths, and said: "The Xie family in Guanzhong can become extremely rich, and there is really some truth. ”

Xie Changsheng was a little proud, but he was curious: "You can go to see the freehand fragment now if you get your wish, I spend more money than you, but I can't read as many books as you, what kind of freehand fragment is it?"

Looking at Xie Changsheng, who spent tens of thousands of gold in one breath but didn't even know what the freehand fragment was, Ding Ning could only shake his head, and said in his heart that stupid people are stupid.

"It's simple. ”

After shaking his head, he said calmly, "The freehand fragment is also similar to the sword wall of the Shadow Mountain Sword Cave. In the ancient flood time, the earliest people in order to fight against natural disasters, fierce beasts, diseases, began to look for means to strengthen the body, and some people stood out and comprehended the means to make themselves stronger. ”

Xie Changsheng was a little stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but interrupt: "It's very simple, why is it so complicated?"

Ding Ning ignored him, and continued: "Therefore, what records the method of cultivation may not be words, and the simplest may be just some knots, some simple symbols, and pictures. Thousands of years later, some cultivation methods that are not powerful and have little meaning in cultivation will naturally be eliminated, while some of them are still very powerful in the world of cultivators who have evolved through countless generations, and the cultivation methods that surpass most of the sect's secret texts will naturally remain. It's just that the method of recording is different from today's, and today's practitioners have to understand the true meaning on their own. ”

Xie Changsheng and Shen Yi finally understood, and said in unison: "You mean, the freehand fragment is also the same as the sword wall of the Shadow Mountain Sword Cave, which is equivalent to the last book of the ancient sect in the past, but it is not an ordinary written record?"

Ding Ning nodded and said: "The freehand fragment looks like a landscape of ink and wash, and it is a freehand technique, with the charm of the landscape, but not necessarily the shape of the landscape, the most important thing is that this ink landscape is still incomplete, so it is even more difficult to understand the true meaning of the generation of masters who left this ink landscape at that time." ”

After a pause, Ding Ning looked at Shen Yi and Xie Changsheng seriously, and said slowly: "But what is certain is that this fragment contains a lot of sword styles and cultivation principles, just like the general outline of a sect's canon. The style that Fang Cai Zhou used to make the country picturesque is just the weakest and most superficial sword momentum, and it can't even get out of the painting. ”

Xie Changsheng's face instantly became solemn, and he said: "Zhou Shuyi's sword, if it is issued with all his strength, I am afraid that not many people on the talent book can catch it, and even that kind of sword is only the most superficial and weak, and it can't touch some of the true meaning of this fragment at all, even if it's just to take a look... These tens of thousands of gold are not unjustly spent. ”

Ding Ning said calmly: "Of course I am not wronged, before Emperor Yuanwu ascended the throne, even if the people who were in power at that time wanted to see the fragment, the Zhou family did not agree. At this time, in the temple, I am afraid that only the saint and the queen have seen the fragment. As for now, if we pass through the Six Realms, I'm afraid that no matter how much money is spent, the Zhou family will definitely not open the ink garden for us to enter and look at this fragment. The reason why Zhou Yunhai agreed was only because he was sure that we couldn't see anything at all in such a short period of time. ”